Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can circumvent or hinder or control. The firm resolve of a determined soul. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

Impossible is just an opinion.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Who works with all the strength he can Shall never die in debt to man.

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one mile winds. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds.

The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.